4,465 Quotes About Psychology

If somebody has a false belief, you can’t deliver them the truth unless they fully trust in you. More you try to hammer the truth at them, more they will defend and strengthen their false belief.

If you believe all those who are urging you to give up are wrong, prove them wrong!

The ability to belong and connect is what makes us important.

It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else.

To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.

People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.

I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life. I don’t want to be “just another patient”. I wanted to be “special”. I want to be something, anything. I feel like nothing, no one. If I left an imprint on your life, maybe I would be someone, someone you wouldn’t forget. I’d exist then. (Marge’s letter to Yalom)

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

Depression... is what your suffering actually yours?